BS: Vuvuzelas

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:12 PM

Doesn't it just cry out to be illustrated with examples.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 05:29 PM

"The magic of football consists of the two-way exchange of emotions between the pitch and the stands, where the public can transmit a full range of feelings to the players.

That's a classic quote...

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 10 - 03:10 PM

HOORAY!

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 06:50 AM

A Colleaguue at work referred to them as Vulvazelas cos'it sounds like a bunch of c**ts playing a piece of tubing!! I don't think he liked them!

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 06:08 AM

What's the difference between T in the Park and a vuvuzela?

One is a godawful monotonous racket that drones on and on and causing hearing damage. The other is a plastic trumpet:

Vuvuzelas banned at T in the Park 2010

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: JHW
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 04:34 AM

I'm in a Mummers team but doubt we could bring them back to life again

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 02:32 PM

is that what the buzz is,i thought it was flies around the england team

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: JHW
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 08:27 AM

The problem for me is not that vuvuzelas sound like bees,
bees alas now sound like vuvuzelas

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 05:23 PM

Here's a better version of that vuvuzela v zurna duel.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 09:55 AM

Luxury Edition (often used by Yachtclub Shanty crews)

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:29 PM

The cat needen't be of hearing to react... the fur on her ass would pick up the sound wave vibrations.

The hair on the back of my neck stands up from the vuvuzelas on the TV with the sound cranked way down.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:28 PM

it goes

QUEEEEFF !

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:21 PM

I picked up a cheap Vuivuzela in Lidls the other day. We've got a cat we thought was completely deaf. I sneaked up behind her and tried it, and she heard that all right. And I was ordered out of the house.

.......................

Here's a match between a Vuvuzela and a Zurna, which is a sort of Turkish bombard. I reckon there could be an arms race ahead of us at football matches...

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Noreen
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 03:55 PM

The Fellowship of the Vuvuzela

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Noreen
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 03:46 PM

Vuvuzela-Konzert

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 02:50 PM

Vuvuzela,
Nelson Mandela,
Better than the football in
South Africa

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: mousethief
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 01:18 PM

Where should we put them?

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 07:07 AM

Donnie, your "Vulvazala" is certainly interesting. Could you describe the sound it makes?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 06:27 AM

When UK get knocked out (pretty soon, I expect) the ones on sale in UK supermarkets will be sold off cheaply. Kazoo maestros can then get one and do serious damage!

RtS
(cackling insanely)

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 10:08 AM

I have invented the Vulvazala which uses the same trupet like principles , but its form is far more erotic right down to the mouthpiece.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: mousethief
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 08:53 PM

Zeus' vulva?

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 07:56 PM

Vintage vuvuzela on EBay

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: open mike
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 10:12 PM

a.k.a. lepatata - i had to go to wikipedia to see what you were talking
about.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: greg stephens
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:34 PM

You lot think you are worried? I've just been to the English Country Music Weekend, huge room full of people playing D/G melodeons.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:29 PM

I am actually in Italy for Italy vs. New Zealand tomorrow. Should I got to a bar ya think?

Did you risk it TIA? And survive?

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: GUEST,Seaking at Sea
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 10:37 AM

None of this as irritating as that loud strange noise that seemed to follow most shots played in the US Golf Open. "INTHEHOLE...."

Maybe where they should stick the Vuvuzelas !

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 10:07 AM

The Consumer Reports site (consumerreports.org) has a video on how to adjust the sound of a digital TV in order to make vuvuzelas less irritating. Sorry, I don't have the link.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 07:50 AM

Bloke on the radio quoted as hating "those Voodo-cello things".

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 12:46 PM

Edthefolkie... hahahaa

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 20 Jun 10 - 11:44 AM

Good point by Bubblyrat re bombardes to support Les Bleus. They could be made of plastic and called Lavieonbleuzas.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 11:36 PM

I'm betting on Liechtenstein to go all the way this time. Never underestimate "The Sleeping Croissant".

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 09:44 PM

I am actually in Italy for Italy vs. New Zealand tomorrow. Should I got to a bar ya think?

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 05:02 PM

I've never heard such a hideous racket in my life. Should I ever feel inclined to watch any world cup matches, it will be with the sound turned down. Argentina v England seems a remote possibility.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 02:23 PM

The game game starts soon... surely now all hopes have been dashed by Cameroon/Denmark in the final ninety minutes. Nothing short a of a miracle goal by Cameroon/Denmark could turn this game into a glimmer of a hope of going through...

Yeah, I can mute that shite along with the vuvuzelas.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 02:17 PM

At least vuvuzelas are better than the incessant drumming.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 01:56 PM

I like the bagpipes too, but you don't want a whole bunch of them playing stuff haphazardly and all at the same time...

Come to think of it, I don't think you want that with any instruments. ;-)

How about the Alpenhorn? A few thousand of those going all at once would be quite memorable.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 12:05 PM

If Scotland.... I shudder to even think of it (and I like the pipes).

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: bubblyrat
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 11:28 AM

Why haven't the French supporters all been playing Bombardes ?? THAT would drown out the plastic trumpets !!

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Jun 10 - 03:47 AM

south-african-woman-ruptures-throat-in-vuvuzela-contest

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 10:29 PM

I used to watch hockey in the late 60s, early 70s, Spaw, and I found it quite exciting at the time...but times have changed.   ;-) I don't give a hoot who wins this or that professional sports game anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 04:31 PM

Now I'm logged in - thank goodness we don't have to endure such bilge at polo matches.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Gurney
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 04:05 PM

Ladies netball fans here have noisemakers, too. Two inflatable large sausage-like skins that they bang together.
Deeper tone than vuvuzelas, they sound more like a growl.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 02:33 PM

And just think if you were doing some sports with your time instead, how much more exciting your life could be!

Works both ways Hawkster..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 01:42 PM

Heh! Vuvuzelas??? I never even heard of the damn things till I saw this thread title. I don't watch any sports events on TV, so I have totally missed whatever the hell it is that's bugging the rest of you about the noise at the soccer games in South Africa. ;-) Just think if you were doing something else with the time instead...how peaceful it could be.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 01:22 PM

They were selling them at Sheffield Wednesday's ground at Hillsborough today. One of the pupils at school bought one back from the trip today and boy they really are LOUD. I have no problem with them at the world cup but I dread to think that we are going to have groups rolling home from the pub blowing the bloody things.

Subject: Help please
From: ced2
Date: 18 Jun 10 - 06:21 AM

Where, in the North of England (UK) may one purchase a genuine Vuvuzella?

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Paco O'Barmy
Date: 17 Jun 10 - 04:58 PM

Why not just ban FOOTBALL??? We played rugby at my school, Soccer was seen as some sort of effete nancy-boy game played by lady-boys.
                   Perms, the true path!

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Bainbo
Date: 17 Jun 10 - 04:47 PM

Just finished watching the France - Mexico game, and it was when it was over that I realised I hadn't noticed the vuvuzelas so much. I haven't worked out yet whether that was because there weren't so many there, or because I was enjoying the game so much, or because the broadcasters have found a way of muting them.

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 08:07 PM

I don't see why Portuguese reproductive organs are so darned special they warrant a whole thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Vuvuzelas
From: Tootler
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 08:00 PM

Stop wingeing about them. If you don't like them, turn the sound off. Simples! As a bonus, you also turn of the mindless drivel of the commentators.

I very rarely watch football, but when I do it is usually with the sound turned off. Not so much to mute the noise of the crowd as to turn off the commentators. Without exception they all suffer from verbal diarrhoea and feel they must fill every second of the game with inane remarks. They are incapable of leaving a silent moment.

Turn the sound off and you find that the game is much easier to follow and more enjoyable.